Waite the Chinese set themselves to shut out as completely as poe sible from the empire, the benolits to be derived from an extension of trade, the Japanese, on the other hand, are ever seeking to take a step in advance. Seeing the advantage derived, or to be derived, from the exchange o! their peculiar productions with the rest of the world, they logically reason that this advantage is to be best secured by the good quality of the articles contributed. Competition, and the mutual knowledge of one another's
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